Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez

Interested in economic development and behavioral science. World Bank and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Views my own

[Andrea Presbitero @a_presbitero]

📢📢Call for paper for research proposal on women's economic empowerment, labor force participation, and entrepreneurship, for a 2-day workshop in Rome on May 15-16, organized by @wb_research @AxaGenderLab and @EIEF_Rome #econtwitter

[Cass Sunstein @CassSunstein]

The World Bank is doing some truly extraordinary work in the area of behavioral science. @bjerde_anna @WorldBank @zeina_afif
https://t.co/jg5OqWZA56

[Marina M. Tavares @tavares_mm]

It was great to discuss @BancoMundialLAC's new paper on #GreenJobs in #LAC with Hernan Inkle and @OscarCalvo_econ. One key question raised was how emerging technologies like #AI might impact green jobs. My new paper shows green jobs may benefit from #AI.

[Arturo Herrera Gutiérrez @ArturoHerrera_G]

The world needs better education, access to water, and clean energy among other things. This requires selecting good ideas and massively scaling them up.
We discussed this with John A. List during his recent visit to the World Bank to present his book, the Voltage Effect.

See the replay here: https://t.co/rJNelVuKVl @Econ_4_Everyone @wbg_gov

[Noël Muller @NoelMllr]

Twin review papers on how aspirations can help children and adults prosper — or frustrate them, make them miss opportunities, or stuck them in poverty.

With Anna Fruttero, @OscarCalvo_econ, and @jjdehoop

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[Noël Muller @NoelMllr]

@a_peterman @OscarCalvo_econ @wb_research Thanks for sharing it! ICYMI, we also recently released a follow-up paper on policy interventions related to aspirations and how they should ensure the corresponding opportunities: https://t.co/zS3fBqeUsp

[Anne Brockmeyer @annebrockmeyer.bsky.social @AnneBrockmeyer]

New paper on the trade-offs involved in designing simplified tax regimes, by @WorldBank #DaTaxWB colleagues & @KRACorporate

Cool microdata evidence from Kenya + cross-country evidence on simplified tax regime design

https://t.co/1Ue4oRxW0d

[LeandroPdelaEscosura @LdelaEscosura]

My new Open Access book is already available at https://t.co/VIY7ySkGrh

[Megan Stevenson @MeganTStevenson]

So pleased to see my paper out in the BU Law Review!

This paper surveys 50+ years of randomized control trials in criminal justice and shows that almost no interventions have lasting benefit -- and the ones that do don't replicate in other settings. 1/

https://t.co/xIvIcCseGL

[Maryam Aslany @m_aslany]

I’m extremely saddened to hear of the passing of James C Scott. He was a stunningly original thinker, who asked truly significant questions, and whose work has become foundational to several different disciplines. To me personally, he endowed a sense of the fundamental significance, across history, of peasant practices, which are inherently difficult for states to understand. My current work on the crisis of the peasantry in the 21st century would not have been possible without his inspiration and many conceptual breakthroughs.
Like countless others of his students and readers, I am sad to know there will be no more books with his name on them; however, I celebrate a long and brilliant career, whose extraordinary output will continue to inspire for a long time to come. Thank you, Professor Scott.

[Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez @OscarCalvo_econ]

@pseudoerasmus Brings to mind Adam Smith’s “linen shirt argument” - nicely explored by the late Martin Ravallion:
https://t.co/LH7pssedEH

[Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez @OscarCalvo_econ]

@cremieuxrecueil (i) The theory had to be adapted (e.g., Fracastoro had referred to “spores”) and (ii) the ultimately wrong miasma theory had fit very well the data until it was superseded by germ theory in the second half of the nineteenth century

[Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez @OscarCalvo_econ]

@cremieuxrecueil Maybe close enough: Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553) proposed a precursor to the germ theory of disease in De Contagione (1546). He argued diseases were caused by “rapidly multiplying minute body and that these bodies are transferred from the infector to the infected” (Britannica)

[Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez @OscarCalvo_econ]

Striking how explicit Marshall was in his preface about the influence in his thinking of a particular theory of biology articulated by Herbert Spencer - now mainly known for having coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest'

[Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez @OscarCalvo_econ]

Reading the superb book 'Fluke' by @brianklaas reminded me of how Alfred Marshall inscribed the phrase 'nature does not make jumps' (in Latin of course) on the title page of his Principles of Economics

[Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez @OscarCalvo_econ]

Best subject index entry ever?

(from Jon Elster's "Explaining Social Behavior")

[Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez @OscarCalvo_econ]

@michaelreid52 And an inspiration for many of us!

[Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez @OscarCalvo_econ]

@Manuj_Hidalgo Y no solo alumnos…

[Indermit Gill @IndermitGill]

Our biggest concern is poorer economies—especially the 75 countries eligible for the most concessional assistance from @WBG_IDA. They have a growing debt overhang and shrinking fiscal space. They need more help.

[Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez @OscarCalvo_econ]

@jburnmurdoch Jeremiah Dittmar and coauthors make the intriguing argument that it wasn’t the Reformation per se but the rise of religious competition, in reality an unintended consequence, that drove critical shifts in its aftermath : https://t.co/4A6jXm4Mpq